An extract from a booklet introducing Paul Mercurio, the star of Strictly Ballroom, to media and promoting the release of the film in Australia in August 1992. This page features quotes from Paul about director Baz Luhrmann and his dancing career.
At 29, Mercurio had extensive experience as dancer and choreographer including as part of the West Australian Ballet Company and the Australian Ballet School.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.